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Adjective: placating  'pley`keyting [N. Amer], plu'keyting [Brit]
  1. Intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions
    "placating gestures"
    - appeasing, placative, placatory
Verb: placate  pleykeyt or plakeyt
  1. Cause to be more favourably inclined; gain the good will of
    - pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, gentle, gruntle

See also: conciliative, conciliatory, placatingly, placation

Type of: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize [N. Amer], tranquillise [Brit], tranquillize